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On AGI, mass automation, and what the Luddites really fought against
Or how I got Hard Forked
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Brian Merchant
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On AGI, mass automation, and what the Luddites really fought against
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Trump's AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia
The president is trying to give Silicon Valley nearly everything it wants — at a price.
Jul 24
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Trump's AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia
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How big tech is force-feeding us AI
Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI…
Jul 23
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How big tech is force-feeding us AI
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The struggle over AI in journalism is escalating
Politico journalists are taking on management for using AI products that risk damaging their reputation and replacing their work. Their fight is…
Jul 18
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The struggle over AI in journalism is escalating
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The budget bill opens the floodgates for state surveillance tech and bad AI
Silicon Valley wins big in the accelerated authoritarianism of Trump's beautiful bill
Jul 4
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The budget bill opens the floodgates for state surveillance tech and bad AI
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Don't forget what Silicon Valley tried to do
The 10-year ban on state AI laws may be dead, but let's not forget that OpenAI and big tech tried to subvert democracy.
Jul 2
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Don't forget what Silicon Valley tried to do
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June 2025
Hundreds of workers mobilize to 'Stop Gen AI' and help each other survive AI automation
A mutual aid group has formed to confront the impacts of generative AI, class action lawsuits against the big AI companies yield mixed results for…
Jun 27
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Hundreds of workers mobilize to 'Stop Gen AI' and help each other survive AI automation
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AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.
Jun 25
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AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
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A moral crusade against AI takes shape
The pope takes on AI, chatbots abet a mental health crisis, and per MIT, generative AI use impairs learning. The Critical AI report, June 22nd edition.
Jun 22
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A moral crusade against AI takes shape
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This is the gentle singularity?
Sam Altman says the AI utopia is already here — in a manifesto aimed at raising money from the Saudis. On the real vs imagined manifestations of modern…
Jun 18
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This is the gentle singularity?
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The weaponization of Waymo
How protestors turned torched Waymos into icons of the anti-ICE demonstrations
Jun 10
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The weaponization of Waymo
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Elon Musk's job has already been automated
Musk may never be welcome in the White House again, but DOGE's AI programs sure will be. Plus: A roadmap for resisting AI, the WaPo AI editor disaster…
Jun 5
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Elon Musk's job has already been automated
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